There's 20 million acres of
wheat straw in Manitoba alone, along with 2 million acres of flax straw.
Sprint's pilot project will test run printing papers made primarily of
wheat straw in a bid to find a sustainable alternative to wood - based paper
Not exact matches
Golfman and his team spent 14 years conducting R&D before arriving at a product, manufactured
in India and made primarily of
wheat -
straw fibre, that achieved the trifecta of high quality, high environmental integrity and affordability.
O'Connell said that Dell is also using packaging materials recycled from agricultural waste, such as
wheat straw,
in its efforts to accelerate innovation - goals echoed by the AAAS Research Competitiveness Program and advanced through its involvement
in award programs like the Catalyst Award.
Keasling's method feeds agricultural waste such as cornstalks and
wheat straw to E. coli bacteria engineered to break down the sugars and produce biologically synthesized hydrocarbons that burn and function just like those
in fossil fuels.
Purple
Straw is the only heirloom
wheat to have been cultivated continually
in the South from the Colonial Period into the last quarter of the 20th century.
Ethanol fuel is produced from sugar cane
in Brazil and from the cellulose of a wide variety of plants, including cornstalks, poplar trees, and switch grass, as well as waste left over from the forest products industry,
wheat, oat, and barley
straw.
Ford Motor Company, working with academic researchers
in Canada and one of its suppliers, has developed a
wheat straw - reinforced plastic; the natural fiber - based plastic contains 20 %
wheat straw bio-filler.
The
wheat straw is lesser quality than the other types, but it could be suitable
in certain quantities that you could feed them.
Ford has a long history of experimenting with different renewable materials
in its vehicles, from the WWII - era soy / hemp plastic Ford prototype car to today's inclusion of plant - based materials such as soy foam, kenaf fiber,
wheat straw, castor oil, coconut fiber, etc,.
In the next two to five years, the energy - efficient production of ethanol from cellulosic biomass such as
wheat and rice
straw, hemp, flax, and corn stalks will become commercially viable.
Ethanol sourced from
wheat returns poor emission reductions unless the
wheat straw is also used
in CHP processes (Figure 15).
By deriving it from inedible plant matter such as switchgrass, wood chips, and
wheat straw, the hope is that cellulosic ethanol could supplement our transportation fuels
in a way that is more efficient and has fewer harmful impacts on the environment and food prices than corn - based ethanol.
While cows don't really prefer the
straw / hay combo, they will learn to eat it by adding silage,
wheat, maize, soya or sugar beet, «just as children are encouraged to take their medicine by cloaking it
in a syrup» because they can't pick around it.
Especially
in Winnipeg because there is so much ag waste available, particularly
wheat straw and flax
straw.
For the experiment, biochar made from
wheat straw was ground into pellets 2 millimeters
in diameter and mixed into soil
in Jiangsu province that contained high levels of cadmium.
Gary was raised on a 300 acre farm
in Williamson County, TN producing corn,
wheat, soybeans, tobacco,
straw, lespedeza hay, beef cattle, swine, and truck farming / vegetables.
The more pliable, long
straw reed is grown
in Yorkshire, Essex and Devon, while the resilient combed
wheat reed is generally seen around the West Country.